However (song)
"However" | ||||
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Single by Glay | ||||
from the album Review | ||||
Released | August 6, 1997 | |||
Genre | Pop rock, power pop, progressive rock | |||
Label | Platinum Records | |||
Producer(s) | Glay, Masahide Sakuma | |||
Glay singles chronology | ||||
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However is the 12th single release by Japanese band Glay on August 6, 1997. It debuted at #1 on the Oricon chart, appearing at that position for 5 weeks in total, selling 1,341,980 copies.
The title song was used as the ending song for the TV drama "Ryakudatsu Ai Abunai Onna" (略奪愛・アブない女, lit. "Despoiled Love: Dangerous Woman") aired on TBS channel, whose opening theme was another Glay song, "Freeze My Love", and all the music was instrumental versions of Glay's songs.
Awards
[edit]- Grand Prize winner at the "30th Japan Cable Broadcast Awards"[1]
- 39th Annual Japan Record Awards "Excellent work prize" [2]
Covers by other musicians
[edit]"However" has been recorded by Kiyoshi Maekawa in his album Ballad Selection, in 1999, and by Ayumi Nakamura in her album Voice, in 2008. Debbie Gibson recorded an English-language cover of the song in her 2010 Japan-only release Ms. Vocalist.
Track listing
[edit]- However
- I'm Yours
References
[edit]- ^ "Nihon Yusen Taisho" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2009-01-04.
- ^ "第39回日本レコード大賞 (The 39th annual Japanese record prize)". jacompa.or.jp (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2007-12-19. Retrieved 2008-01-01.